In message <20140112064503.gb23...@ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes: >How they handle the leap second issue will assert whether humanity has >any intent of keeping the meaning of the word "day" to be based on the >rotation of the earth.
No, it will decide who gets to decide when "day" is: The local and therefore presumably legitimate government, or a bunch of scientists. "day" is defined by what you clock shows, and clocks don't run on UTC, they run on: UTC + some_constant_to_make_it_day_when_our_government_wants_it_to_be_day Dropping leapseconds will only cause approx 0.5% more frequent adjustments to that constant than the previous century has seen. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
